SAP Payroll Consultant - Bangalore Urban - PwC Acceleration Centers

Description

Minimum Degree Required (BQ) *:

Bachelor's Degree

Required Field(s) of Study (BQ):

Preferred Field(s) of Study:

Minimum Year(s) of Experience (BQ) *: US

Minimum of 10-16 years of experience

Preferred Skills/Certification(s) Preferred:

• SuccessFactors Employee Central Certification
• SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Certification
• SuccessFactors Replication Expert – (BIB/P2P)

Preferred Knowledge:

As a manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Senior Managers and above.
• Be involved in the financial metrics.
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients.
• Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen.
• Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
• Adherence to SLAs, experience in incident management, change management and problem management.
• Develop new skills and strategies to solve complex technical challenges.
• Assist in the management and delivering of large projects.
• Train, coach, and supervise staff to recognize their strengths and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.
• Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively.
• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues.
• Continue to develop internal relationships and the PwC brand.
• Build a strong team environment that includes client interactions, workstream management, and cross-team collaboration.
• Actively engage in cross competency work and contribute to COE activities.
• Demonstrating project management skills including the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while being detail oriented.

Technical Skills

Employee Central Payroll Expertise

• Provide expert-level technology consultation during implement design and development phase in the SAP ECP module utilizing the Success Factors Human Resource (HCM) framework.
• Configuration experience across the SAP Payroll/SuccessFactors ECP modules
• Expert knowledge of SAP PY/SuccessFactors ECP and related functionality, coupled with strong analytical skills and a good understanding of information technology concepts and processes.
• Drive the definition of standards during change request workshops.
• Drive the development of technology solutions which provides standardized, functional, maintaining, and cost-effective payroll solutions.
• Utilizing SuccessFactors ECP Framework modelling techniques to provide production support for payroll.
• Drive the development of technology solutions which provide standardized, functional, supportable, maintainable, secure, and cost-effective HR IT solutions.
• Develop HR processes and guidelines keeping in mind the continuous optimization of system functionality and performance.
• Drive the definition of ECP standards during requirements workshops and change requests.
• Provide clear and concise project status to project management team.
• Understand customer Statement of Work and identify complex areas that will require specific focus within the ECP framework.
• Good understanding of Payroll Business principles
• Design, configure and maintain all SAP payroll components including wage types, benefits integration, deductions, limit on deductions, off-cycle activity, accumulations, date and period modifiers, off-cycle activity, third-party remittance, posting to accounting, accruals, tax structure, BSI, garnishments and reporting.
• Configure and maintain all wage types and determine taxation rules, FI mapping, infotype association and permissibility rules.
• Experience working on Union Payroll Configuration
• Configure and support Payroll Control Center for both regular and off-cycle processing including creating and editing validations as needed.
• Design and configure and maintain multiple payroll schemas in an outsourced model
• Enable and configure payroll features in an outsourced model
• Create generic payroll functions/operations that can be used generally as needed
• Perform basic Employee Central provisioning settings in support of Employee Central Payroll
• Configure mapping of Employee Central Payroll fields and wage types originating from various Employee Central instances
• Configure posting integration for on-premises or third-party financial systems
• Configure Tax Reporter in an outsourced model
• Design and configure check forms to meet client requirements
• Configure and support garnishment remittance and deduction rules used to calculate amounts needed for garnishment calculations.
• Maintain configuration and integration for BSI SAAS and EFORMS Factory
• Review, analyze and test impact of payroll related changes included in support packages.
• SAP On Premise/SAP EC Payroll (ECP) mandatory
• BSI SAAS and EFORMS Factory
• Communicate clearly: both verbal and written with a professional demeanor

US Payroll

• Experience in - SAP payroll configuration for Gross payroll and Net Payroll, Tax Reporter configuration,
• Experience with BSI tax factory, Third party remittance, Payroll catalog definition including but not limited to collective bargaining agreement wage type definition and configuration,
• Off-cycle payroll definition and processing, Levy management, Garnishments definition, reporting and management, Integration with Benefits, Integration with SAP FI and with Third party FI, Detailed knowledge and understanding of integration with Time Management.
• Experience in SAP Benefits configuration
• Experience in SAP Time Module
• Experience in creating and defining custom operations and rules
• Experience with Yearend activities, Open Enrollment, and support packs implementation,

Replication Expertise

• Design, configure, and manage the replication of employee data between SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and external systems (e.g., SAP ERP HCM, payroll, time management, benefits systems, and third-party applications).
• Configure the SuccessFactors Employee Central Replication interface (including EC-to-ECC and EC-to-Third Party systems) to ensure smooth and accurate data transfers.
• Define data mapping rules, transformation logic, and data synchronization processes between SuccessFactors and other integrated systems.
• Manage integration tools and services (e.g., SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI), SAP Data Services, OData APIs) to ensure smooth and timely replication of data across systems.
• Oversee and support HR data integration activities, ensuring that employee data is replicated accurately and consistently across all systems, such as SAP ERP HCM and payroll systems.
• Monitor replication jobs, handle errors, and provide troubleshooting support for integration issues, ensuring minimal disruptions to business operations.
• Provide timely support for replication errors, data mismatches, and failed data transfers by conducting root cause analysis and providing remediation solutions.
• Collaborate with technical teams, including SAP support and external vendors, to resolve replication issues and ensure the integrity of the data across all systems.

Delivery lead experience:

• Constantly looking to identify impediments early, actively working to resolve those impediments, and escalate when needed.
• Management and tracking of cross team/squad dependencies.
• Hands-on experience working on reporting and preparing presentations as part of WSR & MSR.
• Management and tracking of all high-integrity commitments.
• Provides proactive visibility and effectively communicates delivery targets, commitments and progress.
• Works to minimize meetings and ceremonies, but when they are needed, they are well-run and efficient.
• Encourages a culture of team-driven decision making and commitment. Encourages team trust and facilitates team building events.
• Where appropriate, coaches the teams to improve collaboration and outcomes (coaching is the primary responsibility of teams' managers)

Qualification:

• Good knowledge of SAP S/4HANA architecture and functionality
• ITIL 4 Certification

Soft Skills:

• Self-driven with a can-do attitude, with an excellent communication and client-facing skills
• Problem-solving mindset and ability to work in a collaborative environment.
• Strong relationship builder within the organization and with external partners.